Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1875 — NEWS OF THE WEEK. [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

FOREIGN. The Berlin Municipal Court on the2lst sen. tenced the editor of the Germania, an ultramontane journal, to five months’ imprisonment for having published an article insulting to the Chancellor and inciting to disobeience of the laws. Gen. Kaufman occupied Khokand, in Centra] Asia, on the 16th of the present month. All the Russiah prisoners had been delivered over and the Khan had accepted all the conditions of peace, according to latest advices. A Ragnsa dispatch of the 22d confirms previous reports of insurgent victories, and says that everything between Novowarsch and Vishegrad had been burned. Trebigne had been again surrounded. A Belgrade dispatch of the 23d says the Servian Minister of War had ordered a large force to the Bosnian frontier as an army of observation. The teat of the circular addressed by the Papal Nuncio to the Spanish Bishops was published m Madrid on the 24th. The Nuncio says he has been directed to communicate to the Bishops the substance of the protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary of State of the Holy See to the Spanish Government upon the Popeye attention being called to the toleration clauses in the new Constitution proposed for Spain. The Ministerial papers say that no concessions will be made to the Pope tending to,prejudice the independence of the magistrates in dealing with the Bishops, and especially the Bishop of Seo d’Urgel. The Papal Nuncio was recalled on the 24th. ■ A special telegram from Berlin of the 25th says the-Sublime Porte had declined to make aay concession to the insurgents until they have made a full and complete submission. A Constantinople dispatch of the same date says the Consular mediation had failed. A Paris dispatch of the 25th says a Bonapartist council had been recently held at Arenberg, Switzerland, at the chateau of ex-Empress Eugenie, at which it was resolved that the Empress, who was unpopular in France because of her pronounced ultramontanism, should resign the regency, and that the Prince Imperial, guided by M. Rouher, should have supreme direction of affairs.

DOMESTIC. The Grand Council to treat with the Indians relative to the cession to the Government of their rights in the Black Hills assembled on the White River, about six miles below the Red Cloud Agency, on the 21st Red Cloud refused to attend at the opening of the council. Senator Allison opened the conference with a speech in which he explained .to the Indians the desire of the-white people to secure a right to the Indian Black Hills region by giving them a fair equivalent for the«ame.. A Washington telegram of the 22d says there remained only <28,000,000 of the new 5 per cent, bonds for negotiation, and that no further call for the redemption of the old bonds would be made until demanded by subscriptions to the new. The news received on the 22d from the re. cent flood disasters on the coast of Texas Shows that the storm had swept over the whole line of the coast, and, in addition to the damagedone at Galveston, that at least nine towns had been nearly or. quite obliterated, namely: Indianola, on the w’est shore of Matagorda Bay, having about 2,000 inhabitants, where but three houses were left standing and from 150 to 200 lives were lost; Saluria, on the Matagorda Island; Sabine Pass; Calcasieu; San Bernardino; Buffalo Bayou; Lynchburg, a town of about 2,000 inhabitants; Matagorda, the capital of Matagorda County, and Cedar Lake. A large number of lives must have been lost, and the destitution and suffering of the survivors Were very great One dispatch to New Orleans from Indianola says: “ Bend us help, for God’s sake !” Aid was being rendered to the sufferers by the people of New Orleans and Galveston. Acting-Mayor Davis, of Galveston, telegraphed to the Mayor of St. Louis on the 22d, appealing for aid and saying the survivors in the towns destroyed had lost everything, and that provisions, clothing and every necessary of life were needed. These floods were caused by steady, heavy winds blowing the waters of the gulf in huge waves upon the coast.

Mail accounts received on the 23d of the recent storm and flood disaster at Galveston, Tex., represent the loss of property as far exceeding in amount that given 'by previous telegraphic reports. Three hundred houses were swept away, and the destruction to railroad bridges and other improvements would run the aggregate loss up to between <3,000,000 and <4/MO,OOO. It was thought on the 23d that the total number of lives lost along the coast by the storm would reach, if not exceed, 400, and several small towns back from the coast are reported to have been swept away. A man and woman performing on a trapeze in a hall in New York city, on the evening of the 23d, fell headforemost to the floor from the ceiling, and were fatally injured. The National Agricultural" Congress held its annual session at Cincinnati on the 22d, 23d and 24th. W. C. Flagg,. of Illinois, was elected President for the ensuing year, with one Vice-President for each State and Territory. G. E. Morrow, of Chicago, was chose n Secretary and J. O. Griffith, of Nashville, Treasurer. Resolutions were adopted rommending| the completion of the four great water routes recommended by the United States Senate, more especially the central one, and recommending the reduction of the taxon tobacco to ten cents per pound. The Congress is to meet next year in Philadelphia. The Herndon House, ie Marshall; Mich., Mas destroyed by fire early on the morning of the 24th, and Claude G. Avery, Antoine Grvber, Eliza King and Martha Varsden were either burned to death or fatally injured in trying to escape from the building. Several other persons received serious injuries. The report of the board appointed to inthe Chicago Custom-House build, i “K made public en the 26th and Is to the effect thet some of the material used in the atructureso far should be rejected and some other modffications made ip the work, and that then the structure may safely be proceeded with. The Secretary of the Treasury hid arses tfle report, and work on the buildisg is to be .resumed in the spring in accordance with the made by the commission. The eommisEwaers st the Red Cloud Agency to tieat with the Indians for the -Rills were ppnfiJdferably alarmed on

the 24th by the warlike attitude assumed by several “ bad" Indians who had putir an appearance under the lead of “ Little Bad Man.” A fight sesmed inevitable at one time, but the Indians were finally pacified.' But little hopes of negotiating a satisfactory treaty I were entertained by the commission. PERSONAL . The case of Tilton vs. Beecher was called in j the Brooklyn City Court on the 20th, and by consent of counsel was put over until the i next term. The jury in the case of Westervelt, on trial i in Philadelphia for alleged complicity in the I Charlie Ross abduction, have returned a ver-. diet acquitting him of actual participation in ! the crime, but find him guilty of conspiracy to conceal the child aad of having a guilty knowledge of the abduction. Vice-President Wilson on the 22d sent a note to the Boston Journal saying that a sense of obligation and duty to the country would not permit him to accept the nomination for Governor of his State, even though it were tendered by the unanimous voice of the convention. Charles G. Fieher, late Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Cohimbia, has been arrested in Washington on the charge of stealing the appeal bonds and papers in forty District cases which had been appealed from the Police Court to the Criminal Court. He waived examination, and was held to answer before the Grand Jury. The stolen papers and others of equal importance were recovered. It was stated in Washington on the 23d that the Red Cloud Investigation Commission would, in their report, unanimously acquit Secretary Delano and Commissioner Smith of fraud, and would condemn Prof. Marsh for the means he had used to secure evidence against the Indian Bureau. The announcement was made on the 23d that J. Russell Jones had been appointed Collector of Customs at Chicago, vice N. B. Judd, resigned. President Grant and wife, accompanied by ex-Becretary Borie and wife, Gen. Babcock and Col. Fred. Grant, arrived at St. Louis on the 24th. Geo. W. Gage, a prominent, citizen of Chicago, and well known to the traveling public because of his connection, at different times, with several of the leading hotels of the city, died on the 24th, aged sixty-three years. The President has accepted the resignation of Secretary Delano, to take effect Oct. 1. The letter of resignation is dated July 5, and the President’s letter of acceptance Sept. 22. The President expresses his belief that Mr. Delano has filled every public trust confided to him with ability and integrity.

POLITICAL. Full returr.s of the vote for Governor in California give Irwin (Dera.) 61,525, Phelps (Rep.) 30,922, Bidwell (Ind.) 29,630. The Michigan Reform State Central Committee have issued a call for a hard-money mass convention to bt held at Detroit on the 14th of October. The Massachusetts Democratic State Convention met at Worcester on the 22d and unanimously renominated Gov. Gaston. Gen. W. F. Bartlett was nominated, by acclamation, for Lieutenant-Governor—The rest of the ticket is as follows; For Secretary ofState, Geo. H. Munroe; Treasurer and Re-ceiver-General, Weston Howland; AttorneyGeneral, George T. Perry; Auditor, John E. Fitzgerald. The platform adopted favors “thespeedy return to specie payments as cssential to the revival of commerce, business and credit of the country, and to the welfare of the laboring masses.” The New York Liberals met in Stite Convention at Albany on the 22d and decided not to nominate a State ticket, but recommended that the Liberal and Independent voters of the State support those candidates already in the field whose character and experience they most approve. They resolved in favor of a speedy return to specie payments. The Minnesota Anti-Monopoly State Convention met at Owatonna on the 22d and made up a State ticket by selecting the candidates for Governor, Secretary of State, State Auditor and Chief-Justice from the Democratic ticket, the Lieutenant-Governor and Attorney-General from the Temperance ticket, nominating E. W. Dike, the present incumbent, for State Treasurer; A. J. Edgerton, the late incumbent, for Railroad Commissioner, and Sherwood Hough, the present incumbent, for Clerk of the Supreme Court. The convention also declared in favor of Treasury notes as a legal tender for all public or private obligations; the substitution of such currency in place of the National Bank notes, and that the Government’s bonded debt should be bought in with 3.65 convertible bonds, payable iu specie or currency at the option of the Government. The Maryland Republican State Convention at Baltimore on the22d nominated: For Governor, J. Morrison Harris; Attorney-General, S. Teaekle 'Wallis; Comptroller, Edward Wilkins. This ticket was nominated as a Reform ticket, iu connection with the Citizens’ .Reform party. Resolutions were adopted in favor of a speedy return to specie payments and against all of the currency.

Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has, it is said, re ceived several telegrams from Mississippi, from persons of both political parties, cornmendiqjj his recent letter to Gov. Ames, which is described us iiaving had a very salutary effect These jtgjggrams also mention that perfect peace reigned in the lately-re-ported disorderly portion of the State. Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, is also said to approve of the Attorney-General’s course in the Mississippi troubles. A greenback mass-meeting was held at Cooper Institute, New York, on the evening of the 23d, at which resolutions were adopted condemning the policy of contraction, demanding the retirement of tiie National Bank circulation and the substitution therefor of legal-tenders, and favoring the payment of one-half of the customs dues in greenbacks. Nearly-completed returns from the election in New Mexico place Elkins’ (Rep.) majority for Delegate to Congress at 1,504. In Wyoming the Legislature is divided politically ksfollows: Council, 2 Republicans and 11 Democrats; House, 9 Republicans , and 18 Democrats. Rev. R. C. Tilton Las declined the comi nation for Governor of Wisconsin on the Temperance ticket. —Bishop Smith, es Kentucky, the senior Bishop of the Protestajji Episcopal Church, has called a meeting of the House of Bishops, in Grace Church, New York city, Oct 28, to Meet Missionary Bishops to Africa and China, and also to receive the report of the Mexican mission. China was created a missionary jurisdiction by the General Contention ‘last fall, and Dr. Orrick was chosen Bishop,"but declined. In Africa there is-a vacancy caused by the death, last year, of Bishop Auer.